Category: Going Green
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Biggest Environmental Issues
It is the year 2014, mankind has come a long way from being a primitive, crude beast, to a sophisticated and developed species. Our technology continues to progress exponentially as our kind’s intelligence grows and spreads all over the globe. And yet, perhaps it would have been better if we had stayed primitive; better for…
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The Rakshabandhan Mantra:Protect the Earth and it will protect you!
The mantra edition is here again greeting you all a very happy summer season, which marks the arrival of a never-ending list of Indian festivals. The leading one is Rakshabandhan. Oh! True, you all must be scratching your heads, thinking as to what in heaven, is Rakhi going to do with environment. For all the…
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Resource Management: Sustainable Development Mantra
Resources are finite but human needs and desires are uncontrollable and limitless. This statement made by an economist made the mantra edition popped out in my head with the most common mantra of the generation: Sustainable development plan. It is where economic growth and environmental growth go hand in hand. We have not inherited this…
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Landslides and man as the agent of change!
Landslides are among the major hydro geological hazards that affect large parts of India, especially the Himalayas, the North-eastern hill ranges, the western Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Eastern Ghats and the Vindhyas. In the Himalayas alone, one could find landslides of very fame, name and description-big and small, long and short, quick and creeping, ancient…
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Moving in, the green way
“Home is where the heart belongs”- this quote, as simple and pure as it is, is true to its core. Home is not just a construction of bricks and cement; it is an archive of memories, of laughter, of sorrows and most of all, relationships and family bonding. So we know, house isn’t just…
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Waste Management – Solutions and Its Importance
It seems the more we create the more we throw away. Early humans did not produce as much garbage as modern humans. During the pre-modern era, most of the waste produced was either ashes or human biodegradable waste which could be released back into the land without causing much harm to the environment. In the…
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Earth hour- a united effort towards a better planet
Earth hour is a worldwide phenomenon engaging more than seven thousand cities across the world in a joint and collaborative effort to help protect the earth from environmental concerns. It was first started as a lights-off initiative by World Wide Fund for Nature or WWF in Sydney, Australia but has now gathered epic proportions with…
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Inject the green ways into the Fresh Life – Save Earth
It is a known fact that the future generations will decide the fate of this planet. It is requisite to give children the basic idea of the planet’s condition. When a child is taught about the seriousness of the issues right from his/her childhood, they would pave a green way for their generations. Children should…
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Applications of solar energy
The light and heat from the sun is harnessed strategically using solar thermal electricity, solar photovoltaics , solar architecture and this energy harnessed is called as the solar energy. There are two kinds of solar energy that can be harnessed. One is passive solar energy and the other is active solar energy. Active solar energy…
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Protect the Oxygen Emitters – The Trees
Humans have been evolving right from the pre- historic times. Not only the humans but also the way they think and do, everything has evolved. Development has been the major keyword since then. Development in every phase has been very significant for what we have become now. New buildings were built and infrastructure was developed.…